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FileVault disk encryption

Note: The FileVault disk encryption feature will be available in Kaspersky Security Center 10 SP3. For more information, contact Kaspersky Lab Technical Support.

Kaspersky Endpoint Security allows managing FileVault encryption remotely. Encryption prevents other users from unauthorized access to sensitive data stored on the startup disk of the user's computer.

When an administrator starts FileVault encryption of a computer from Kaspersky Security Center, Kaspersky Endpoint Security prompts a user of this computer to enter his or her credentials. Disk encryption only starts after the user provides the credentials and the computer is restarted.

Note: If FileVault encryption management isn't enabled in Kaspersky Security Center, users with administrator rights can encrypt and decrypt their Mac startup disks from System Preferences. For more information on FileVault, refer to Apple's documentation.

If the computer has multiple computer accounts, FileVault encryption makes the disk inaccessible to all users except for the user who entered the credentials.

Allow other users to unlock the disk

  1. Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Security&Privacy.
  2. On the FileVault tab, at the bottom of the window, click the lock.
  3. In the prompt for administrator credentials, enter the user name and password.
  4. Click the Enable Users button.
  5. In the window that opens, select a user to authorize to unlock the computer and click the Enable User button next to his or her name.
  6. In the window that opens, enter the password of the user's computer account and click the OK button.
  7. Click the Done button.

The user can access the encrypted disk.

Note: Administrator rights are required to allow other users to unlock the disk.

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